Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those near him declared that the expression of the Duce's face did not change. He sat quite still while the mob closed in upon his would-be assassin. Strong hands strangled the youth. Fourteen knives plunged into his flesh. Stripped, beaten to a pulp, dead, his body, unrecognizable, was eventually recovered by the police...
...Dehra Dun, India, experts of the Forest Research Institute announced the perfection of a process for making white paper out of bamboo pulp; predicted that India could soon supply a large percentage of the world's paper demand. (A bamboo forest grows to an average height of 20 to 60 feet. The largest species reaches a height of 120 feet...
...your teeth, your dentist will corroborate the verdict of sixty years. . . ." Alert readers of the Saturday Evening Post, eager to applaud a "dentifrice fight," reflected ruefully that Forhan's cannot start rebuttal through the Saturday Evening Post for two months-the time consumed by the Post's pulp presses and slow freight distribution system in the preparation of each issue...
...little man listened, nodded to himself, strolled out into the sunshine, entered an opulent motor, ordered himself whisked to his sumptuous yacht, Lydonia. He was content. The Hermann Kotzschmar Organ was not out of tune-and he was Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, unrivaled pulp-Moloch, publisher of the Saturday Evening Post. (See p. 26.) Mr. Curtis' taste in, and love of, music fits harmoniously with that of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Bok. Father and son-in-law, are, needless to say, chief patrons of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra...
...legislate frugality upon his people. He is himself, un uomo magro (a lean man), a man who is "fit." Less wine and more coarse flour will toughen jovial Italian paunches into the likeness of his own muscular diaphragm. Less gasoline will be imported, less white flour, less newspaper pulp, less superfluous building material...